Apple today released the fourth developer preview of macOS Sierra since showing off the software update for the Mac at WWDC 2016. The latest release is available now through the Mac App Store.
via macOS 10.12 Sierra beta 4 hits the Mac App Store for developers — 9to5Mac
It’s not burdensome to buy an item with bitcoin. A retailer rings up an order and presents the buyer with a QR code. The purchaser scans the code with his or her phone, taps a few buttons to confirm the purchase — and voila — a bitcoin purchase.
However, mobile payments are experiencing a renaissance, thanks to Apple Pay and even the retailers’ competing CurrentC, and suddenly a few extra clicks is a few too many.
Atlanta-based bitcoin payments processor BitPay plans to announce during the Money 20/20 conference its new Bitcoin Checkout app, a point-of-sale app that brings one-tap payments to cryptocurrency.
“Tapping with NFC and pressing the send button takes as much time as it does tapping and using your fingerprint,” said BitPay executive chairman Tony Gallippi. “And bitcoin works on a heck of a lot more devices than Apple Pay.”
The Bitcoin Checkout app works…
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You could call it the Power of 3. Intel, Microsoft and Facebook are driving major advances in the Open Compute Project. Some of these gains took center stage at the OCP European Summit in late October.
In his keynote address, Intel GM Billy Cox detailed how Intel and Facebook engineers worked together to deliver the new Honey Badger storage server for the Facebook photo storage tier. With its remarkably low power draw, this new storage server, based on the Intel® Atom™ processor C2000, will help Facebook store more than 400 billion photos in a cost-effective manner. For a more detailed account of this feat, watch the video “Unleashing Digital Services: Facebook Discusses Meeting Storage Demands.”
In other news at the summit, Microsoft announced the contribution of the second-generation Open CloudServer (OCSv2) specification to the OCP. Through a collaborative engineering effort, Intel and Microsoft developed a board to go…
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